ember

One night, driving home, I passed an alley and saw someone light a crack pipe, the tiny red ember flaring bright.

If just a single ember remains hot at its core, Olshanski notes, the result can be an inferno.

Fire was actually carried in hollowed out branches in which an ember was placed.

I understood, and, stepping to the fire, returned with a charred ember.

The other snatched a blazing ember from the mud chimney and struck the leading wolf dead partly within the hut.

When he ceased silence reigned, except for the occasional snapping of a burning ember.

It grew and expanded till it formed a huge ember-mottled orchid with vast petals trembling in the wind.

Darius lay as I had last seen him; and him we buried in the maize clearing at the back, with the ember glow for funeral lights.